"Where progress has been made," he wrote near the end of his life, "wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it's been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians.
As Zinn wrote, "Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it's been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians.
Citizens of our languages, we act as citizens do, participating, reforming, accepting the rituals and celebrating their alteration, occasionally even voting for new rules and rulers.
"How can we act as citizens under those conditions?" Mr. Saxe said he believed that the district was trying to promote homosexuality.
The primary ingredient of a democracy — real pluralism where people feel a common destiny, act as citizens and don't believe their minority has to be in power to be safe or to thrive — is in low supply in all these societies.
Some ecological economists have advocated participatory decision methods, in which people act as citizens rather than consumers, as an epistemologically preferable alternative to a price-based valuation approach for determining the disposition of ecosystems.
If successful, that account shows that we do have a moral duty to abide by the laws of our country, to act as citizens, and that this duty is one of fairness.
Also, as Conover and Searing point out, "while most students identify themselves as citizens, their grasp of what it means to act as citizens is rudimentary and dominated by a focus on rights, thus creating a privately oriented, passive understanding" (2000, 108).
As the intellectual historian Thomas Bender has described in a recent study, "Historians in Public," we may be seeing the reemergence of locally grounded public intellectuals who act as citizens, joining with other citizens on matters of concern.
Like BirdGenie, it includes a feature that allows users to act as citizen scientists.
During budget debates in the Senate in 2007, Americas Health Insurance Plans, the HMO lobby, flew in hundreds of elderly Medicare Advantage members to act as citizen lobbyists.
